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Dog name · New York City

Baby

499 licensed New York dogs are called Baby, which makes it the 75th most common dog name in the city. Dogs called Baby are more often female. The name is now 2.6x less common than it was fifteen years ago.

499Licensed New York dogs called Baby
#75Rank among all dog names in the city
2005Peak year, by the dog’s year of birth
64%Of Babys are female

Is Baby getting more or less popular?

0 20 40 2005: 39.6 per 10,000 2006: 34.1 per 10,000 2007: 37.8 per 10,000 2008: 30.6 per 10,000 2009: 28.6 per 10,000 2010: 27.5 per 10,000 2011: 15.5 per 10,000 2012: 19.9 per 10,000 2013: 13.5 per 10,000 2014: 15.3 per 10,000 2015: 10.6 per 10,000 2016: 17.4 per 10,000 2017: 14.2 per 10,000 2018: 12.6 per 10,000 2019: 14.7 per 10,000 2020: 6.2 per 10,000 2021: 12.3 per 10,000 2022: 9.4 per 10,000 2023: 14.1 per 10,000 20052010201520202023
Dogs called Baby, per 10,000, by the dog’s year of birth

Among dogs born in 2005, 39.6 in every 10,000 licensed New York dogs were called Baby. For dogs born in 2023 it was 14.1. The name peaked with the 2005 litters.

Where Baby is a Cypress Hills name

Baby is 3.39x more common in Cypress Hills than across the city as a whole.

  • Cypress HillsBrooklyn 55.9
  • Castle HillThe Bronx 50.9
  • Lower East SideManhattan 39.5
  • Sunset ParkBrooklyn 35.6
  • Brighton BeachBrooklyn 31.7
  • BushwickBrooklyn 30.2

dogs called Baby per 10,000 dogs in that ZIP code

Only ZIP codes with at least 1,500 licensed dogs are compared, so a small neighbourhood cannot produce a large number by accident.

What sort of dog gets called Baby?

Yorkshire Terrier 63Chihuahua 54Shih Tzu 46American Pit Bull 29Maltese 27American Pit Bull Terrier 17
About these numbers

This comes from dog licence records, not from a count of all dogs. The New York City health department estimates that around 80% of the city’s dogs are unlicensed, so these figures describe licensed dogs only. Rates are shown per 10,000 licensed dogs so that neighbourhoods and years can be compared fairly, but a neighbourhood where fewer people license their dogs may still be represented differently from one where more people do. Records are as supplied by the city and are not corrected for owner error.

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